Cricket: Igglesden retires hurt: Derek Hodgson reports from Headingley
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Yorkshire 209 and 318-4; Kent 298
ALAN IGGLESDEN retired in mid-afternoon with a back strain, an injury which may take him out of the England squad for the third Test, starting at Trent Bridge on Thursday. England's manager, Keith Fletcher, said there would be a check today but Igglesden's promotion seems unlikely.
Fletcher was here to see Kent's other contender, Martin McCague, take the brunt of a blazing innings from Richie Richardson, 50 coming off 51 balls including four boundaries off McCague, three in one over. The West Indian cut and pulled superbly but Yorkshire would have appreciated a longer knock, like Martyn Moxon's 100 off 314 balls.
McCague also failed to finish the day, wrenching an elbow when bowling four wides with the new ball. Yet not much had gone right for the Tykes until Moxon and Richard Blakey settled into a patient rebuilding programme as Yorkshire struggled, 71 behind.
The wind helped Igglesden's outswing; Ashley Metcalfe was pinned with two runs added; Richardson's innings, a minor classic, ended when Richard Davis began a boring but effective siege of the leg stump. Sixty-nine had been added, with the occasional intervention by Moxon, in an hour, when Richardson went to sweep Davis and was leg before.
David Byas was almost as enterprising before his innings, with Yorkshire 35 ahead, ending controversially. He played forward to Igglesden, the ball sailed gently to first slip. Byas stood his ground and gestured, implying a bump ball before departing, swinging his bat furiously.
Moxon showed iron patience and a captain's responsibility while Blakey showed polish and application in a stand of 179.
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